Expressive Threat Detection Validation Framework

Abstract

Under this project IET has developed a performance evaluation laboratory that consists of a synthetic dataset generator, a postprocessor to load generated data into relational databases, and a hypothesis scorer. The objective of this effort was to generate synthetic data sets for the counter terrorism domain to support objective performance of existing threat detection tools/technology. The generator can generate a file with 100,000 individuals and 1,000,000 observable transactions in about 12 minutes. The generator has over 100 different parameters that may be varied to make the link discovery problem easier or harder in specific ways. This massively parameterized problem space supports flexible experimentation that can address the following kinds of questions: What problem characteristics most influence a given technology's performance? What is the observed capabilities envelope of a given technology across the parameterized problem space? What performance can we predict for a given technology on a dataset with given characteristics?

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA453605

Entities

People

  • Brandon Goldfedder
  • Robert Schrag

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Communications Intelligence
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Human Intelligence
  • Intelligence Collection
  • Lisp Programming Language
  • Organizational Structure
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Relational Databases
  • Simulations
  • Social Networks
  • Surveillance
  • Task Forces

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Computer Science.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development

Technology Areas

  • Space